Different Law Systems David D Friedman
23 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights
October 20, 1740: The War of the Austrian Succession
22 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe. Its pretext was the right of Archduchess Maria Theresa to succeed her father, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, as ruler of the Habsburg Monarchy. The Habsburg Monarchy, was a collection of states, or a personal union […]
October 20, 1740: The War of the Austrian Succession
Suicidal Tendencies: Wind & Solar Obsession Destroys Australia’s Economic Future
22 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
A little over 20 years ago, Australia plugged in to the wind and solar transition with the Federal government’s Renewable Energy Target. As they say, ‘sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind’. Australia’s once reliable and affordable power supplies are long gone, replaced by heavily subsidised, intermittent and costly wind and solar, backed up by […]
Suicidal Tendencies: Wind & Solar Obsession Destroys Australia’s Economic Future
Dismantling the Royal Society Large-Scale Electricity Storage Report
22 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
By Paul Homewood A new analysis by David Turvey dismantles the recent Royal Society report on electricity storage: Summary The Royal Society (RS) has recently released its Large-Scale Electricity Storage report that says we can provide the electricity we need using wind and solar power supported by large-scale hydrogen storage. The report […]
Dismantling the Royal Society Large-Scale Electricity Storage Report
French Plans For Glory At Verdun – Romania Stops The Germans I THE GREAT…
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Bhattacharya on Covid censorship
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
A week ago Jay Bhattacharya gave a great talk at the weekly Stanford Classical Liberalism workshop. (Link in case the embed doesn’t work.) He detailed the story of government+media Covid censorship, along with the dramatic injunction in the Missouri v. Biden case. The discovery in that case alone, detailing how the administration used the threat of…
Bhattacharya on Covid censorship
New questions about the war
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
As Israel’s troops and tanks sit waiting at the border to invade Gaza, I’m starting to wonder if they really will invade. For when I remember that Israel’s avowed aim is to get rid of Hamas, and then think of the options Israel has (I’ve concluded that a ground invasion was the best tactic), I […]
New questions about the war
Upzoning with Strings Attached
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking, urban economics Tags: offsetting behavior, unintended consequences, zoning
The subtitle of this paper is: “Evidence from Seattle’s Affordable Housing Mandate.” Here is the abstract: This paper analyzes the effects of a major municipal residential land use reform on new home construction and developer behavior. We examine Seattle’s Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program, which relaxed zoning regulations while also encouraging affordable housing construction in […]
Upzoning with Strings Attached
David Friedman on climate change
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, David Friedman, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, property rights
Transition to Poverty: If Wind and Solar Get Any Cheaper, We’ll All Go Broke
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
The grand wind and solar ‘transition’ guarantees households and businesses get to suffer crushing power bills. Or, in cases where the massive subsidies to wind and solar power outfits are collected from taxpayers, rather than from power consumers through their power bills, those bills may be cheaper as a result. But the buck still stops […]
Transition to Poverty: If Wind and Solar Get Any Cheaper, We’ll All Go Broke
The Trump Gag Order Should Be Struck Down
21 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
Below is my column in The Hill on the imposition of a gag order on former President Donald Trump by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. Despite my long-standing criticism of Trump’s personal attacks on judges and critics, this gag order should be curtailed or struck down on appeal. While the odds tend to favor the lower…
The Trump Gag Order Should Be Struck Down
The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky (2015)
20 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
‘The Coalition promised regime change but instead brought about state collapse.’ (Unnamed Iraqi general quoted on page 101) This is a disappointing book. Emma Sky is mentioned half a dozen time in Thomas E. Ricks’s book The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006 to 2008. Her story is extraordinary. […]
The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky (2015)
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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